Dearborn All Ford Show - Sunday

[Luva65wagon]

Just walked in the door from my white-knuckle drive back from Oregon. Here's a small sampling of pictures from the Sunday after the Regional at Dearborn's All Ford Show at the Woodburn drags. It was hard to take a lot of pictures of both the drags and the cars, but I got some of the more unique cars.

If anyone wants a CD-r or two of the pictures I took, PM me and we'll work something out.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/th_DBAFS1.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/DBAFS1.jpg)

Overlooking a flock of Falcons. That's Kenny posing on the right.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/th_DBAFS2.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/DBAFS2.jpg)

Pretty famous car... and driver... Phil Bonner

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/th_DBAFS3.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/DBAFS3.jpg)

Another cool 427 powered 'bolt

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/th_DBAFS4.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/DBAFS4.jpg)

No question this is a Ford...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/th_DBAFS5.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/DBAFS5.jpg)

Nice to the last bolt...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/th_RacerDave1.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/RacerDave1.jpg)

This is Racer Dave just before he had to change his drawers. Skinny tires and lots of power made for a stadium full of gasps. Fortunately he was able to get it under control before putting it into the left wall.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/th_RacerPowell.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/RacerPowell.jpg)

Powell from Canada got a free run down the track in his very cool sedan. Ran a 14.37.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/th_TheSwan.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/whoaaanelly/Dearborn_AFS/TheSwan.jpg)

Would have loved to have seen this run, but there was a couple pretty fast wagons blowin' the doors off some cars.

There's a lot more than this, but as I said above I just got home. Unfortunately I had a bit of trouble with my wagon heading down to Grants Pass. I was barely able to pull any mountain pass at more than 45MPH without the car coughing and gasping. Not having any time or tools to speak of, I did some basic swapping out of fuel filter, then fuel pump, then on the way back found myself in a rest area in the middle of nowhere converting back to points and condenser (made it worse, so I converted back to Pertronix). Anyway, what should have been about a 7 hour drive took 12. Still think its fuel starvation, so will have to look at everything from the tank to the carb. It's certainly not living up to its "best 6 cylinder" reputation at the moment. Sigh...

[falcon cobra]

Sorry to hear that, I was hopeing you got it fixed, bummer...., how did it run on the flat up to seattle? still not good? do cams go flat on I 6's ??... just a thought....that little red 65 not only looks good, it's quick too....
john h

[Jeff W]

Thanks for the pictures. My '62 did the same thing when I bought it. I ended up shaking about 2 pounds of rust out of the tank and using the Kreem kit (or POR 15) to seal in the rest. Maybe you could drop a magnet into the tank in a string and see if it comes out "clean".

maybe you can trade your "Best Inline Six" award for the "Hard Luck" Plaque...

Good luck and keep us posted.

[Luva65wagon]

Sorry to hear that, I was hopeing you got it fixed, bummer...., how did it run on the flat up to seattle? still not good? do cams go flat on I 6's ??... just a thought....that little red 65 not only looks good, it's quick too....
john h

It ran for the most part OK on the flats. There was aperiod of time about when I got back to Salem again on the return trip that it also didn't like the flats, but by Vancouver it was running pretty good. That lasted about 1-hour then it was bad again all the way to my garage. Flat cams don't fix themselves and then fail again, do they? And yes the red 65 was quick.

[Luva65wagon]

Thanks for the pictures. My '62 did the same thing when I bought it. I ended up shaking about 2 pounds of rust out of the tank and using the Kreem kit (or POR 15) to seal in the rest. Maybe you could drop a magnet into the tank in a string and see if it comes out "clean".

maybe you can trade your "Best Inline Six" award for the "Hard Luck" Plaque...

Good luck and keep us posted.

:ROTFLMAO:

:WHATTHE:

:bicker:

:doh:

And that's all I got to say to that!

:shift: cough :shift: cough :shift: spit :shift:sputter

[Luva65wagon]

Oh... and that is one fine plaque too Jeff. Nice work! [thumb]